2260s

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Summary

  • The Monoceros subclass scout is an integral part of major fleet deployments, working both as outriders and as so-called fleet coordination ships.[1]
  • The Class F1 'Heavy Lander' remains a common shuttle on most frontline vessels.[3]
  • Experiments on large linear engines take place, ending in disappointment and even disaster.[4]
  • Technological interest is piqued with linear excitation warp studies.[5]
  • Klingon Imperial Intelligence scores a number of operational victories against the Federation.[6]
  • Star Fleet resources are concentrated on inexpensive cruisers of the Achernar type and budget-busting Defenders.[7]
  • A series of foreign sales scandals seriously hampers the search for optimal hardware upgrades for the Okinawa light frigates.[8]
  • Escorts by trios of Okinawa class light frigates for Star Fleet task forces were common events in this decade.[8]
  • The Orions raid and smuggle dilithium out of the Coridan system, while the Tellarites possess secret dilithium mines on Coridan IX.[9]
  • Throughout: The Okinawa light frigates struggle to become more than system defenders.[8]
  • The Class G3 heavy shuttle is rapidly replaced in the cargo hauling and long range away team deployment missions by the newer Class G4.[11]
  • The Mustang class corvettes continue to augment the Battleaxe force in both law enforcement and local defense.[12]
  • Enforcement of Federation law leads to many a boarding action this decade.[13]
This was true of the 2250s, as well.
  • Early: There is a policy of lend-leasing or selling relatively advanced weaponry to allies in the fight against Klingons; which also influences Derf class buoy tender/mine warfare ship production.[15][16]
  • Early: The threat of Klingon conflict is as ominous as ever.[17]
  • Early: Use of the D6 work pods dwindles.[18]
  • Latter half: Tensions with the Klingons increase, approaching a breaking point.[20][16]
  • Latter half: The attention of starship and starcraft designers is turned towards the novel concept of linear-sequential, rather than radial, excitation of warp coils.[21]
  • Late: The engine emission stealth of aggressor states ceases to be a concern, as Star Fleet acquires its first practical cloaking devices.[22]
  • Late: The Defender class battleships are the only major construction project to come to fruition during the early years of the Organian ceasefire.[23]
  • Late: Star Fleet mandates intelligence operations that amount to piracy.[24]
  • Late: A dozen missions of commandeering civilian craft for intelligence gathering are documented.[24]
A dozen would be the bare minimum.
  • End of: Most perimeter action ships operate from their support bases.[25]

Years

Events

  • The last 10 Roanoke class transports (retained as navigation training vessels) are starting to be retired (thru 2279).[26]
  • The USS Napoleon represents an experiment at a new type of carrier.[27]
  • The remaining San Francisco class cutters (formerly Lincoln class frigates) are retired and scrapped.[28]
  • Some decommissioned Independences are turned into commercial cargo drones.[29]
  • Large interstellar ‘berserker machines’ and malevolent and extremely resilient spaceborne lifeforms, against which standard cruiser armament is impotent, are encountered for the first time.[30]
  • The various civilian Hubble class runabout variants remain popular with those unable to afford the latest technology.[31]
  • A modern sublight cargo drone is introduced, sporting full impulse engines and atmospheric and rough-field capabilities.[32]
  • Throughout the decade, the Constitution/Bonhomme Richard class heavy cruisers receive technology upgrades.[33]
  • A few Constitution class heavy cruisers start demonstrating individual external markings.[33]
  • The five Anton class light cruisers are stricken from the Reserve Register.[34]
  • USS Coral Sea (NCC-4402, Larson class destroyer) deploys on a solo deep space mission, which was rare in this decade.[35]
  • A major reshuffling of the Klingon High Council begins.[36]
  • The Benning class heavy frigates receive improvements to their small craft support facilities.[37]
  • One Okinawa class light frigate is lost to this decade's defensive operations.[8]
  • By: The Whirlwind assault ships have been upgraded with phasers.[38]
  • mid-decade: The decommissioning of the Bering class cargo drone begins.[39]
  • mid-decade: Civilian freighters begin a series of convoy exercises with Star Fleet in preparation for such operations.[29]
  • late decade: President McLaren orders the reduction of Star Fleet's exploration budget. Fleet Admiral Heiharchio Nogura, veteran of the prolonged Klingon conflict and strong proponent of the Constitution exploration program, resigns in protest.[33]
Per present awareness of Presidential administrations, McLaren assumed office in 2269. The order rescission occurs in early- to mid-2270, which allows the the drafted Constitution refit to be implemented.
  • late decade: President McLaren backs off of the previous order, and agrees to fund the extensive Constitution refit project.[33]
  • late decade: The Mojave subclass light cruisers are tasked with an intense hunt for Orion pirates and slave traders. The Mustang class corvettes assist in the task.[41][12]

References

  1. ↑ Guide: Hermes
  2. ↑ Guide: Rochester/Kitty Hawk/Taurus
  3. ↑ Guide: Class F1
  4. ↑ Guide: Remora refit
  5. ↑ Guide: Nelson
  6. ↑ Guide: Aakenn
  7. ↑ Guide: Santee
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 Guide: Okinawa
  9. ↑ Memory Beta: "Coridan III"
  10. ↑ Memory Beta: "Argelius II"
  11. ↑ Guide: Class G3
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Guide: Mustang
  13. ↑ Guide: Graynet
  14. ↑ Outer Systems and Frontier Party
  15. ↑ Guide: Derf
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 Guide: Achernar
  17. ↑ Guide: Bader
  18. ↑ Guide: Class D6 (pod)
  19. ↑ Guide: Griffon
  20. ↑ Guide: Syracuse
  21. ↑ Guide: Richtofen
  22. ↑ Guide: Soyuz
  23. ↑ Guide: Defender
  24. ↑ 24.0 24.1 Guide: Leonardo/Rogge/Carbonare
  25. ↑ Guide: Kiaga
  26. ↑ Guide: Roanoke
  27. ↑ Guide: Big Cat
  28. ↑ Guide: Lincoln
  29. ↑ 29.0 29.1 Guide: Independence
  30. ↑ Guide: Amchitka/Kearsarge
  31. ↑ Guide: Hubble
  32. ↑ Guide: Voltara
  33. ↑ 33.0 33.1 33.2 33.3 Guide: Constitution
  34. ↑ Guide: Anton
  35. ↑ Guide: Larson
  36. ↑ Guide: 2240-2270 - The Final Frontier
  37. ↑ Guide: Coventry
  38. ↑ Guide: Whirlwind
  39. ↑ Guide: Bering
  40. ↑ Guide: Cochrane
  41. ↑ Guide: Texas refit




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